Welcome at Van der Meer Consulting B.V.

Van der Meer Consulting provides independent and specialized consultancy services in the field of coastal engineering since 2007. This consultancy is based on more than 35 years of experience in both research (16 years at Delft Hydraulics, now Deltares) and consultancy (10 years at Infram). In January 2014 Van der Meer became full professor Coastal Structures and Ports at IHE Delft for one day per week (0.2 fte). His inaugural address on 10 September 2014 is available in English (8181 kb) and Dutch (8444 kb). The PowerPoint is also available.

Full design information was lacking for berm breakwaters. Van der Meer and Sigudarson have written a book, published by World Scientific, on: Design and Construction of Berm Breakwaters. See for more information www.worldscientific.com. The book review can be found here.

New knowledge should be made available to colleagues in the field: open course ware. For this reason about half of the 200 papers published by Van der Meer as well as accompanying power point presentations are available for download. Presentations larger than 10 Mb have been given separately. Lectures at IHE Delft are also available. Moreover, also databases are available.

Guidance on wave overtopping can be found in the EurOtop Manual (2018), which is free for download. Van der Meer was co-author and editor. An Artificial Neural Network was developed in cooperation with the University of Bologna. This ANN that can predict wave overtopping, wave transmission and wave reflection for all kind of coastal structures is free to use.